Now, who are your people?: Norfolk, Virginia, and Littleton, North Carolina, 1903-1918 --
A reluctant rebel and an exceptional student: Shaw Academy and Shaw University, 1918-1927 --
Harlem during the 1930s: the making of a black radical activist and intellectual --
Fighting her own wars: the NAACP national office, 1940-1946 --
Cops, schools, and communism: local politics and global ideologies: New York City in the 1950s --
The preacher and the organizer: the politics of leadership in the early civil rights movement --
New battlefields and new allies: Shreveport, Birmingham, and the Southern Conference Education Fund --
Mentoring a new generation of activists: the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1961 --
The empowerment of an indigenous southern Black leadership, 1961-1964 --
Mississippi Goddamn: fighting for freedom in the belly of the beast of southern racism --
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the radical campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s --
A Freirian teacher, a Gramscian intellectual, and a radical humanist: Ella Baker's legacy --
Ella Baker's organizational affiliations, 1927-1986.

Abstract:

Barbara Ransby chronicles Ella Baker's long political career as an organizer, intellectual and teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. She paints a picture of the African American fight for justice and its intersections with progressive struggles worldwide in the 20th century.Weiterlesen…